Project Space
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The Blue Lotus Foundation Project Space is an online gallery, where we host some of our favourite artists. The aim is to keep it simple so the viewer can take their time exploring each image, etc.
For the month of May, artist and writer Carol Laidler shares her research.
For the month of May, artist and writer Carol Laidler shares her research.
Chimera States
I work in the space between writing and visual art, exploring the tensions between an inner personal space and the multiple voices that constitute the outer world, to examine memory, perception and other-than-human experience. By weaving together ideas and words, both from and with others, I aim to challenge notions of the single narrative and highlight the conflicting narratives that emerge within the history of place. I think of it as a method of coincidental incidents.
I would like to share here - Chimera States. The title refers to the unihemispheric slow wave sleep that migratory animals experience, where they can sleep and be alert at the same time. I have terrible problems sleeping and Chimera States touches on consciousness and perception, on voices heard and drifted through. It exists mostly in the form of words that I have been reading to people remotely and in the dark. I am planning to perform it/ read it live in a darkened space for people to fall asleep to. Website: https://www.carollaidler.com Instagram: @carol.laidler |
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I have a studio at Spike Island, Bristol. Recent and current work includes: Map of Erosion, research and development with Pat Jamieson (2021/ongoing); Chimera States, readings, performance and installation (2020/ongoing); In Free Fall, sculpture and sound installation, in collaboration with Huma Mulji, David Alesworth, Eilis Kirby, Sarah, Rhys, Centre of Gravity, Gardiner Haskins, Bristol (2020); (The Distance) Between Us, telephone conversations, Canopy, Forest of Dean, (2020); Every Few Hours Someone Cries, sound installation, Glenside Hospital Museum, with alldaybreakfast (2020); Walking-Not-Walking, film and performance talk with Davina Kirkpatrick, selected for Flat Pack Film Festival, Birmingham (2020); Mosquito Song, shown in Spike Island print studio (2019); Tide Turns, film (2018); | Bank | performance talk with Carolyn Black, both presented at Liquidscapes, Dartington Hall (2018); The Bulletins of Miscellaneous Information, sound installation with David Alesworth, Lawrence Garden, Lahore Biennial (2018); Soundings, sound and sculptural installation, with alldaybreakfast and Edson Burton, St Mary Redcliffe church (2017/18); Changing Rooms, sound installation with Pat Jamieson, selected for Primordial Soup, Fringe Arts Bath (2017); Unlocked, promenade theatre performance, produced and written by members of alldaybreakfast, directed by Lily McLeish, Glenside Hospital Museum (2017); Unlocked residency and exhibition with alldaybreakfast, The Vestibules, Bristol City Hall and The Arcade, Bristol (2016-17).
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